Reed v. Stretten

Plaintiff appeals by right from an Oakland County Circuit Court jury verdict of no cause of action. Plaintiff also appeals the trial court’s subsequent denial of her motion for a new trial.

On appeal, plaintiff propounds three claims of error. First, she contends that the trial court erred by denying her motion for a new trial. She bases this claim, as she did before the trial court, on a contention that the jury’s verdict was against the great weight of the evidence. Decisional law has variously stated the test applicable to appellate review of claims that a verdict was contrary to the great…